From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jiri@resnulli.us
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, pshelar@nicira.com,
cwang@twopensource.com, nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com,
ebiederm@xmission.com, david@gibson.dropbear.id.au,
sfeldma@cumulusnetworks.com, sucheta.chakraborty@qlogic.com,
stephen@networkplumber.org
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v3 1/2] rtnetlink: allow to register ops without ops->setup set
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 14:40:02 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140701.144002.1658009662052517255.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1403769506-9212-1-git-send-email-jiri@resnulli.us>
From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:58:25 +0200
> So far, it is assumed that ops->setup is filled up. But there might be
> case that ops might make sense even without ->setup. In that case,
> forbid to newlink and dellink.
>
> This allows to register simple rtnl link ops containing only ->kind.
> That allows consistent way of passing device kind (either device-kind or
> slave-kind) to userspace.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-01 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-26 7:58 [patch net-next v3 1/2] rtnetlink: allow to register ops without ops->setup set Jiri Pirko
2014-06-26 7:58 ` [patch net-next v3 2/2] openvswitch: introduce rtnl ops stub Jiri Pirko
2014-07-01 21:40 ` David Miller
2014-07-01 21:40 ` David Miller [this message]
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